Bindu Reddy

“Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject’s displayable features a sullen and congested something that pertains to what he has to conceal.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You can't kiss me and vanish.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“What happened on your twenty-first birthday?’ asked Rosie. Had Rosie read my thoughts? What happened on my twenty-first birthday was that I decided that I needed to take a new direction in my life, because any change was better than staying in the pit of depression. I actually visualised it as a pit.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past. I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita